A lobster, a snipe, a duck lying on a cauldron, vegetables and pears, all on a wooden table

Balthasar Huys (Mechelen ?-1652 Rotterdam)
A lobster, a snipe, a duck lying on a cauldron, vegetables and pears, all on a wooden table
oil on panel
58.7 x 83.2 cm.
stamped on the reverse with the panel maker's mark of a six-pointed star.

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The panel maker's mark '*' was used by an Antwerp workshop between 1619 and 1650; the name of this workshop is unknown.

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